Prairie State Wire

Illinois' U.S. House Rep. Adam Kinzinger shouldn't have called for President Donald Trump's removal following last week's insurrection in Washington that has so far left four people dead, a fellow Republican and outgoing state representative from Crystal Lake said.

"Adam is over his skis," outgoing state Rep. Allen Skillicorn, who lost his bid for re-election during November's General Election, told Prairie State Wire. "He'd rather appeal to the left-wing media than the district he represents."

Kinzinger, a frequent Trump critic, has represented Illinois in Congress since 2010. An Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who remains in the Air Force Reserve and was called to active duty along the Mexican border in February, Kinzinger last week became the first GOP lawmaker in Washington to call for the president's removal from office. He had been with lawmakers who were rushed to safety during what he later called a "coup attempt."

"Here's the truth," Kinzinger said in a video statement posted to his Twitter page a couple of days after the attack on the Capitol building a couple of days earlier. "The president caused this. The president is unfit and the president is unwell. And the president now must relinquish control of the executive branch voluntarily or involuntarily."

Kinzinger later repeated his call for Trump's removal on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

During his interview with Prairie State Wire, Skillicorn quoted from his own Twitter page - which at this writing is open only to "approved followers" - in a post he said was from the day after the insurrection. 

"On the events of yesterday I believe my Twitter post sums it up perfectly," Skillicorn told Prairie State Wire. "Freedom and a democratic republic are incompatible with violence and mob rule. I condemn violence, vandalism, and breaking into anyone’s property (private or public). I condemn quoting an evil tyrant like Hitler or calling anyone a Nazi. This applies to both sides."

Skillicorn lost in November to his Democrat challenger, now former McHenry County Board Member Suzanne Ness (D-Crystal Lake), who took 52 percent of the vote.